Tearing down idols.
Anything we are trusting or finding comfort in, in place of God, is an idol. When I’m not trusting God, I’m usually trusting something else in His place.
It’s clear from the Bible that God is faithful. However, are we giving Him the opportunity to show Himself faithful? Faith is a requirement in the life of a believer. How can we let God show up and show out for His glory when we are holding onto the safer option? We should always utilize wisdom, however if we never take risks or step out in faith then we don’t create the space for God to work. I heard Jabin Chavez say this profound quote in one his his sermons. He said, “The Holy Spirit is our comforter, but if you’re comfortable you’re already doing His job. So you want a move of God without movement. We say ‘Come Holy Spirit! Move Holy Spirit!’ and He says ‘I’ll move when you move! I comfort, but I don’t comfort the comfortable.'”
Recently, God asked me two give up two of my idols. First was my job; it was the way I provided for myself instead of trusting God to be my provider on one income. The next was my home was an idol- a symbol of status. When the Lord impressed upon me to leave my corporate job to stay at home with Remy, I knew I was supposed to do it but my flesh fought me. For years I loved the stability of having a well paying corporate job. At the time, we didn’t know God was calling us to move, so I had to take a step of faith, because I KNEW He was asking me to do this. What if I said “No God, I’m scared to do that. That’s not comfortable.” Or, “I know you said to quit my job, but continuing to work is safer because then I can falsely believe I’m in control.”
Instead of creating space for Him to move with open hands, we keep our fists closed and hold onto everything that’s comfortable. For me, this was fear and worry, because it helped me to try to control situations (or so I thought).
Faith is not “safe” to our human mind or perspective, but it’s actually the safest place to be if it is the direction God has specifically given to you. He is the supreme ruler and He owns everything. He has no match; even the devil who wreaks havoc is a created being that God uses like a chess piece to aide in fulfilling HIS purposes.
Little did I know, God would call me to quit my job and that day my husband would get a great job offer in South Carolina. We would sell our home, pay off our debts, and be set up to be on one income. But it took me having complete faith and trust in God, and letting go of my idols that kept me feeling “safe.”
God is personally walking me through this. Complete trust. HE is my provider, my redeemer, my healer. He is everything I need and He alone has all the answers. He is good, and we can FULLY trust Him to work all things out.
But so often, we don’t. We try to control circumstances and people.We fight our own battles. We take care of ourselves because we are “orphans” and don’t truly understand our Fathers heart for us or His plans because they don’t make sense to us.
We make our own “gods” and look to them when in realized those things are CREATED by God and cannot do a thing for us. We can either keep playing “god” in our own lives or we can completely trust and surrender to whatever HIS plan is. And I promise, His plans are good, even if they don’t seem like it in the moment.
